Daily Archives: March 21, 2017

Cox's Bazar is prone to the cyclones - and some of the most vulnerable residents are the thousands of displaced Rohingya people who live in make-shift camps
Tens of thousands of Muslims who have fled...

In this photo, from December 2016, Rohingyas in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar district (Bangladesh) follow the news broadcast on television in silence.
(AP/A.M. Ahad)
Thengar Char, a 40-square-kilometre island in the Bay of Bengal,...

A small proportion who fled violence decades ago are considered refugees, while many recent arrivals remain undocumented and miss out on vital aid.
By: Vivian Tan | 20 March 2017
In some makeshift sites around Bangladesh’s...